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Below is the growing list of participants who will present or have given tentative acceptance.
Their names are added as they are received and bios will be posted as they are made available.
Please check back for regular updates.

   

Wednesday Evening, June 24

The Opening Keynote Presentation
Duane Elgin
will challenge and inspire conference participants by addressing the questions of the conference through the lens of his latest book due out in April 2009
"The Living Universe: Where Are We? Who Are We? Where Are We Going?"

Duane Elgin has spoken to hundreds of audiences ranging from business executives to spiritual communities.
He brings an engaging approach to his presentations that draws all present into the conversation.
Say reviewers: Duane is "absolutely captivating" and "inspired our deepest thinking." 
For more information please visit his website at www.AwakeningEarth.org

 

Sunday Evening, June 28

The Closing Presentation by
Michael Dowd

will draw together the deliberations of the conference and point towards the future
“Science and Wisdom in Service of an Inspiring Future”

Michael Dowd is a renown Evolutionary Evangelist and the author of
Thank God for Evolution

Lee Hartwell recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine says of Dowd's book:
“At last someone who understands that all of reality is sacred and science is our method of comprehending it.”
For more information on Thank God for Evolution, Click Here

For more information on the evolutionary mission of Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow please visit their website at www.TheGreatStory.org


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Connie Barlow -
Evolutionary Evangelist with Michael Dowd & author of several science & children's books on evolution
            In a special presentation Connie will share her "River of Life"
            (based on the book "Ancestor's Tale" by Richard Dawkins)      

Josephina Burgos - California Institute for Integral Studies

Dwight Collins - Pres., Collins Family Foundation; Prof. Sustainable Ops Management, Presidio School of Management
 
Robert Corrington - Professor of Philosophical Theology, Graduate Division of Religion, Drew University
       "
Religion, Sex, and Art: From Pathology to the Post-Tribal"

Peter Corning - Past Director of the Institute for Complex Studies and co-owner of Synergy Farms
        
"Holistic Darwism: Beyond the Selfish Gene" and "Fair Shares: Beyond Capitalism and Socialism
          (Or the Biological Basis of Social Justice)"

Robert Duisberg - UIEvolution - Senior Research Engineer

Michael Dowd - Evolutionary Evangelist with Connie Barlow and author of Thank God For Evolution
        
“Science and Wisdom in Service of an Inspiring Future”

Rianne Eisler -Social Scientist, Attorney, and Social Activist - author of the international bestseller
The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future

Duane Elgin - Author of Awakening Earth: Exploring The Evolution Of Human Culture & Consciousness
        
"The Living Universe: Where are we? Who are we? Where are we going?

Cheryl Genet - Professor of Philosophy, Cuesta College; Director, Orion Institute
          "Adventures in Synergy"
    
Russell Genet - Professor of Astronomy Cuesta College; Director, Orion Observatory
        “Humanity in the Cosmos”

Louis Herman -
Professor of Politics, University of Hawaii
        "Future Primal: A Politics for Evolving Humanity"

Peter Hess - Director Faith Project National Center for Science Education

Barbara Marx Hubbard - President of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution
       "A Vision of the Future Equal to our Spiritual, Social and Scientific Potential: Key Steps Toward It Now"

Les Ihara - Hawaii State Senator

Pauline Le Bel - Screenwriter, novelist, songwriter, and playwright
      
"Bringing the Universe Story Home”

Jeanne Lombardo
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Educator, poet, writer & editor; Master’s candidate in Interdisciplinary Humanities
      
"Wisdom and the Ideal Society"

David Loye - Social Psychologist, Systems-theorist, and Futurist - Founder of the Darwin Project
       "The Global Sounding and the Better World"

Thomas Lombardo - Resident Futurist Faculty, & Chair of Psychology & Philosophy at Rio Salado College
       "Wisdom, Virtue, and Future Consciousness"

Keith Mesecher - Singer/Song Writer and Director of The Cosmic All Stars band.

George Mobus - Assoc. Prof. Computing & Software Systems, Institute of Technology, U of Washington

Jack Palmer - Jack - Professor of Psychology, University of Louisiana at Monroe;
       "Evolutionary Psychology: The Ultimate Origins of Human Behavior"

Linda Palmer  – Health and psychology researcher/writer/editor, Jiva Institute

Sheri Ritchlin - California Institute for Integral Studies

Bill Shireman - President and CEO of the Future 500, Co-author of "What We Learned in the Rain Forest"

Brian Swimme - Prof of Mathematical and Evolutionary Cosmology, California Institute for Integral Studies,
Co-author with Thomas Berry of "The Universe Story"

Trileigh Tucker -
Associate Professor and Director, Environmental Studies at Seattle University

Richard Trowbridge - Professor of Wisdom Studies; Founder; Transletix, The Flourishing Earth, The Wisdom-Centered Life
        "Wisdom: Theory and Practice"

Art Whatley - Chair - Master of Arts Program in Global Leadership & Sustainable Development at Hawaii Pacific University

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Participant's Bios are presented here in alphabetical order.

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Connie Barlow is an acclaimed author of popular science books and articles, and developer of THE GREAT STORY website. Connie's most recent book, The Ghosts of Evolution (Basic Books), was Amazon.com's top-recommended science book for several months in 2001. Her previous books, Green Space, Green Time: The Way of Science (Copernicus Books), Evolution Extended: Biological Debates on the Meaning of Life (MIT Press), and From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences, all explore the nexus of science, spirit, and meaning. She is founding member and webmaster of Torreya Guardians, an internet community of botanists, naturalists, and others dedicated to ensuring the continuing persistence in the wild of America's most endangered conifer tree: Torreya taxifolia. A Unitarian Universalist, she is a well-known developer of curricula for children's religious education programs. Since 2002, she and her husband (Rev. Michael Dowd) have lived entirely on the road, as "America's evolutionary evangelists". Back to Top www.TheGreatStory.org
Josephina Burgos - Born in Santiago, Chile, Josefina Burgos came to reside in the U.S.A. in 1976 with her son and husband. She lived in Washington, D.C., where she approved the Architectural Registration Exam (ARE), became a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and practiced architecture for sixteen years. She became an American citizen in 1986. She then moved to San Francisco, California, where she joined the California Institute of Integral Studies. There she obtained a master of arts degree in philosophy and religion. Burgos is currently completing the dissertation phase of her doctoral studies. In 2003 she published a short story, Thoughts on a Theme by a Seagull, in the Newsletter of the Center for Process Studies (CPS) in Claremont, CA, Process Perspectives, Vol. 26, Number 1, Winter 2002-2003. That same year another of her stories, Adelaide, was accepted by Process Perspectives and made available as a paper to the membership of the CPS.  In 2006 she was selected to give a presentation – Meaning in a Post-Modern Universe -- at the 10th Annual Conference, Exploring the Boundaries of Experience and Self, organized by the Consciousness and Experiential Psychology (CEP) Section of the British Psychological Society, at St. Anne’s College in Oxford, UK . Back to Top  

Dwight Collins  teaches Sustainable Operations Management at the San Francisco based Presidio School of Management. He is the founder and president of Colbridge & Company. Previously, Dwight directed Aspen Technology’s Strategic Planning Practice, which provided strategic planning optimization consulting services to senior executives. Dwight founded a Semiconductor Industry Practice at Chesapeake Decision Sciences through which he was instrumental in devising strategic enterprise planning and customer order promising systems for several semiconductor companies. In this time frame, Dwight also implemented supply chain optimization capabilities for Shaw Industries, the largest carpet producer in the US, and chemical company Rohm & Haas.  Earlier in his career, Dwight worked as a Senior Operations Analyst at Exxon Corporation, a Senior Consultant at the Logistics Management Institute (LMI) (a Washington, D.C. think tank), and as Captain in the US Air Force. Dr. Collins earned a BS degree in Engineering Physics, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Operations Research, all from Cornell University.  Back to Top

Collins Family Foundation
www.collinsff.org

Presidio School of Management
www.presidiomba.org

Colbridge and Company
www.colbridgeandco.com
 

Peter Corning is currently the co-owner of Synergy Farm near Friday Harbor, Washington (USA). His varied career has included a tour as a naval aviator, a stint in journalism as a science writer for Newsweek, a Ph.D. in the social sciences, post-doctoral training in biology and behavior genetics, several years of teaching in Stanford University's interdisciplinary Human Biology Program and broad private sector experience as a senior partner in a Silicon Valley consulting firm, as well as directing the Institute for the Study of Complex Systems. He is also a member of several scientific organizations and a past-president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He has published more than 150 professional papers and five books and is widely known for his work on the role of synergy as a causal agency in evolution.  Back to Top http://synergy-live.blogspot.com/
www.synergyfarm.com

Robert S. Corrington is Professor of Philosophical Theology in the Graduate Division of Religion of Drew University, Madison, NJ.  He is the author of nine books and around eighty articles devoted to unfolding his own philosophy of ecstatic naturalism, which emerged out of dialogue with Euro-American pragmatism (Peirce, James, Dewey, Santayana), with its intense focus on the metaphysical implications of Darwin, and Continental Phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre), which bypasses epistemology (theory of knowledge) to gain a more primal and grounded account of human consciousness and its intentional objects.  His metaphysics of ecstatic naturalism is concerned with exhibiting the utter vastness of nature as that nature manifests its own unconscious potencies and the religious orders of meaning that intersect with the human unconscious. His seventh book, A Semiotic Theory of Theology and Philosophy, (Cambridge University Press, 2000) extends his categorial scheme into the foundational structures of the world and presents a semiotic cosmology. Currently he is working on a larger project for Cambridge University Press as well as other book projects that will further ramify and extend ecstatic naturalism. This involves a continuing exploration of Hinduism, Buddhism, and theosophy as they all intersect with the liberal strains in Western metaphysics and theology.
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Website: http://users.drew.edu/~rcorring/

Michael Dowd graduated summa cum laude from Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri (affiliated with the Assemblies of God), where he received a B.A. in biblical studies and philosophy. He also graduated with honors from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (now, Palmer Seminary) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (affiliated with the American Baptist Church), where he earned a Master of Divinity degree. Dowd served as a congregational minister for nine years, pastoring United Church of Christ (UCC) churches in Massachusetts, Ohio, and Michigan. His 1991 book, EarthSpirit: A Handbook for Nurturing an Ecological Christianity (Twenty-Third Publications) was one of the first attempts to look appreciatively at biblical Christianity from the perspective of a modern cosmology.
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www.TheGreatStory.org

www.ThankGodforEvolution.com

Robert Duisberg holds both a PhD in Computer Science and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Washington, in addition to a M.S. in Physics from the same institution and a B.A. in Physics and Music from Williams College. His most recent research has dealt with questions of artificial intelligence, affective computing, and statistical mechanics of neural networks. He has had careers in academics and industry working in user interface design and animation, holding a patent for techniques in algorithm visualization and animation. Currently he teaches information systems on the faculty at Seattle University. Dr. Duisberg is also the composer of a wide range of music, including symphonies, a string quartet, a violin sonata, choral pieces, an opera, and works for musical theater. His musical works have been performed by the Seattle Symphony, the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Civic Light Opera, ACT Theater, and several chamber ensembles. Dr. Duisberg‚s musical awards include the Northwest Composers‚ Forum award for choral music and the Hutchinson Fellowship for creative work in music, Williams College (fellow recipient Stephen Sondheim).  Back to Top  

Duane Elgin is an internationally recognized author and speaker who, for more than thirty years, been speaking and writing in four major areas: 1) the big picture of humanity’s evolutionary journey at this pivotal time in history, 2) more sustainable and satisfying ways of living, 3) media accountability for an empowered citizenry and society, and 4) the convergence of science with the world’s wisdom traditions and their shared views of a living universe. Duane is the author of three major books: Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future (2000), Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich (1993 and 1981), and Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness (1993). With Joseph Campbell and others he co-authored the book Changing Images of Man (1982). He has worked as a senior social scientist with the think-tank, SRI International where he coauthored numerous studies on the long-range future for government agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the President's Science Advisor. He has also worked as a senior staff member of a joint Presidential-Congressional Commission on the American Future. He has an MBA from the Wharton School, an MA in economic history from the University of Pennsylvania, and an honorary Doctor of Philosophy for work in "ecological and spiritual transformation" from the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA. Duane was honored in 2006 with the International “Goi Peace Award” in recognition of his contribution to a global “vision, consciousness, a lifestyle that fosters a “more sustainable and spiritual culture.” Back to Top

www.AwakeningEarth.org
Cheryl L. Genet, Ph. D. earned her doctoral degree in Interdisciplinary Science and Theology. As director of the Orion Institute’s Science and Human Meaning program, she focuses her research on scientific paradigms, cosmological stories, interfaith relations, and understanding our emerging global community. She taught at Central Arizona College and more recently at California Polytechnic State University Osher Institute for Life-Long Learning.  Currently she teaches philosophy at Cuesta College, and is the Managing Editor of the Collins Foundation Press. Back to Top www.OrionInstitute.org
Russell M. Genet, PhD, is a Research Scholar in Residence at California Polytechnic State University, Professor of Astronomy at Cuesta College, and Director of the Orion Observatory. He is the author of a dozen books and over one hundred scientific papers. He observes eclipsing binary stars and studies cosmic evolution. Russ, who pioneered the world’s first fully robotic observatory (featured in the PBS special The Perfect Stargazer), was the 51st President of the Astronomical Society of the PacificHis latest book, Humanity: The Chimpanzees Who Would Be Ants, tells the evolutionary story of how we came to be, drawn from the best science of our time, and suggests possible future scenarios.  Back to Top www.OrionObservatory.org
Peter M. J. Hess - His position as Faith Project Director for the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) in Oakland, California.involves outreach to churches and other faith communities to promote the compatibility of evolutionary biology and religious belief. Peter earned his M.A. in philosophy and theology from Oxford University, and his Ph.D. in ecclesiastical history from the Graduate Theological Union. His scholarly work focuses on the interactions between science and religion in the modern world, particularly the impact of theology on the Scientific Revolution (1600-1900) and the response by theologians to discoveries and new paradigms in the developing sciences. His book on Catholicism and Science, co-authored with Paul Allen of Concordia University, will appear in April, 2008 (Greenwood Press); he is also writing on the religious and ethical implications of the rapidly approaching end of affordable oil. Peter has taught theology, philosophy and history since 1980, and currently teaches in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California. A fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), he is also an active member of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT), the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS), and the Metanexus Institute of Philadelphia. An avid rock climber and volcano mountaineer, Peter and his wife Viviane have two sons, Michael and Robert.  Back to Top
 
Louis Herman. Professor Herman is a political philosopher and head of the political science program at the University of Hawai`i-West O`ahu Campus. He was born and raised in South Africa, educated at Cambridge, England (medicine and the history and philosophy of science), and was initiated into utopian politics through involvement with the Israeli Kibbutz movement. He came to Hawaii to get some philosophical distance from his origins and complete a PhD in politics. He now returns regularly to his birthplace in South Africa for his work as executive producer with an international team on a feature length documentary film Primal Quest, dealing with the convergence between the ancient shamanic wisdom of the San Bushman, the hunter gatherers of the Kalahari, and the latest scientific insights from evolutionary cosmology. His book manuscript, Future Primal: A Politics Beyond Modernity provides the background research and vision for the film. He has also authored articles and papers on related themes.
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Primal Quest website
http://socrates.uhwo.hawaii.edu/
SocialSci/louisher/LHerman-Quest.html
Barbara Marx Hubbard is President of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, received her Bachelor Degree from Bryn Mawr College cum laude in Political Science. She took her junior year abroad at the Sorbonne and the Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris. She was given a first ever Doctorate in Conscious Evolution by Emerson Theological Institute. Barbara has helped create the field of conscious evolution. She wrote a first evolutionary networking “Center Letter” in 1967-69 to over 1000 people, working with Dr. Jonas Salk, Abraham Maslow, Lancelot Law Whyte and others to ask the question: “What is the next step for the future good?” She founded The Committee for the Future in 1970 in Washington DC., where she co-produced 25 SYNCON conferences for SYNergistic CONvergence. These advanced, multi media, multi-disciplinary events brought diverse people from every field and function together in a wheel shaped environment to seek common goals and match needs with resources in the light of the growing potential of the whole system. She wrote and narrated the Theater for the Future; a multi-media story of creation that places humanity in the story and visualizes what it might be like when everything we know we can do work. Back to Top www.BarbaraMarxHubbard.com
Pauline Le Bel has been a fulltime artist for over 30 years – an Emmy-nominated screenwriter, award-winning novelist, songwriter, playwright, voice teacher, festival organizer and “evolutionary troubadour”. She is an experienced actor/singer who has worked professionally in theatre, film and radio. She was called "a musical instrument linked to a soul" for her dramatic portrayal of chanteuse, Edith Piaf, in a play she co-wrote. Her published/produced writing credits include: a novel, two screenplays (The Song Spinner, a family movie for Showtime), 4 musicals, a radio drama, songs for films, 3 CDs of her own songs, and articles for various publications. Her powerful, earthy voice has been heard in theatres and concert halls across Canada, in the U.S. and the U.K. and her poetic, musical interpretation of the universe story has delighted international audiences. For three years, she was Artistic Director of Voices in the Sound, an arts and nature festival she created and organized, and is the author of a cosmological musical about her home, Bowen Island, Canada. She is part of a growing community working to integrate art, nature, science and spirit to support a radical transformation in human consciousness.  Back to Top  www.suncoastarts.com/
paulinelebel.html 
www.suncoastarts.com/paulinelebel.html 
Jeanne Belisle Lombardo is co-founder of the Center For Future Consciousness in Scottsdale Arizona, an educational institute designed to help individuals and organizations increase their understanding of the future and constructively approach its challenges and possibilities. Jeanne is interested in the intersection between the humanities and the sciences, and the role that intellect and emotion plays in shaping our world. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies, and is currently writing her Master’s thesis in Interdisciplinary Humanities on stasis and dynamism in the evolution of utopian thought. Conversant in several languages, having lived and traveled in numerous countries around the world, she has been a teacher, educational administrator, editor, writer, inter-cultural advisor, and educational consultant. Passionate about language, culture, history and ideas, informed about current events and global issues, and committed to excellence and learning, Jeanne’s present interests include the future of marriage and gender relations, utopian models of ideal future societies, ethics and ethical evolution, biotechnology and human enhancement, the future of education, and humanities and the future.   Back to Top  Jeanne firmly believes that "The quality of the future will reflect the future quality of human beings." Explore future consciousness and read Jeanne’s essays in the humanities at www.centerforfutureconsciousness.com
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Tom Lombardo, Ph.D. is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Future Consciousness in Scottsdale, Arizona and a leading researcher, writer, and speaker on the topic of the future. The author of The Evolution of Future Consciousness and Contemporary Futurist Thought, Dr. Lombardo brings a unique and powerful synthesis of contemporary science, psychology and philosophy to the field of future studies. He is also the Resident Futurist Faculty, as well as the Faculty Chair of Psychology and Philosophy at Rio Salado College in Tempe, Arizona. He is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and the University of Minnesota and a graduate fellow of Cornell University. He has served as the Chief Psychologist and Educational Director at John Madden Mental Health Center, the Dean of Forest Institute of Professional Psychology, and the Chair of the Psychology Instructional Council at Maricopa Community Colleges. His first book, The Reciprocity of Perceiver and Environment, is the best selling volume in Lawrence Erlbaum’s Resources in Ecological Psychology and has been translated into Japanese. Dr. Lombardo is an award-winning educator with over thirty years professional experience. Back to Top  Click here for a full biography
www.centerforfutureconsciousness.com
tlombardo1@cox.net
Keith Mesecher was inspired  more than 3 years ago by Michael Dowd's telling of the sacred story of our evolving universe  and since then has been studying, teaching, and preaching the story of the universe, as we know it from science, and reflecting on our role in its majestic and magnificent unfolding ever since. Keith formed an organization, Cosmos, at his Unitarian Universalist Church in San Diego and offered church services based on the Great Story. He combines visuals from the Hubbell Space Telescope with guided meditations, participatory, joyous singing, and story telling, based on Brian Swimme’s Powers of the Universe.  As a singer/songwriter Keith began to write high-energy songs celebrating the universe and our role in it, getting the congregation on their feet and dancing during Cosmos worship services. Cosmos invited Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow to San Diego and together they staged North America's first Evolutionary Revival. Michael preached and led a guided meditation, and Connie involved attendees in an enacted parable as she taught the Story of the Universe. Keith and his band, The Cosmic All Stars, led the audience in rousing singing to his songs projected on a screen with magnificent photographs by Connie and the Hubbell Space Telescope.  The Cosmic All Stars is about to release a CD of the songs written for Cosmos and The Evolutionary Revival, and it includes versions with just the band that can be used for live celebrations when the band isn’t present. Back to Top   
Jack A. Palmer is Professor of Psychology at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, where he has taught since 1989. Jack and his wife Linda coauthored a text human evolution, Evolutionary Psychology: The Ultimate Origins of Human Behavior, published by Allyn & Bacon in 2002. Jack primarily teaches Neuropsychology, Evolutionary Psychology, and Positive Psychology. His evolution courses and textbook take the larger “Evolutionary Epic” perspective, which is somewhat rare in psychological science. Jack’s current research focuses on investigations of the effect of rearing experiences (ontogeny) on adult psychological traits; and the neurological substrates of moral reasoning. He has been named “Researcher of the Year” and “Professor of the Year” by his dept. The Palmers are long-time practitioners of the meditative discipline Sant Mat. Their daughter works in television and film production on the West Coast, and their son (now deceased) was a computer programmer and graphic designer.  
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Vita and narrative bio:
About our book, Evolutionary Psychology:
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Linda K. Palmer, is co-author (with Dr. Jack A. Palmer) of Evolutionary Psychology: The Ultimate Origins of Human Behavior. Early in life, Linda made her living as an artist. Later she worked as manager of the Survey Research Institute, University of Georgia, and editor-in-chief of Edition Naam publishing. She has served on numerous non-profit boards, taught psychology at Louisiana universities, and was a therapist in private practice. In 1998, Linda left academia and spent seven years in spiritual centers, studying full-time with renowned mystic, Thakar Singh. She produced over a dozen books from his discourses, including his last work, Live the Life of Soul. Linda currently conducts psychological research with Jack, serves as editor for Jiva Institute, and does freelance editing and writing. Linda and Jack have a daughter who works in television and film production; their son (now deceased) was a computer programmer/graphic designer.  
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Sheri Ritchlin's dissertation—The Return of the Sage: A New Cosmology Meets the Way of Heaven and Earth in the I Ching—was written under the guidance of Yi Wu, Brian Swimme and Richard Tarnas. She is the author of One-ing and Dream to Waken as well as articles for the Institute of Noetic Sciences Review (Shift), and Parabola Magazine, including an article in the forthcoming Spring 2008 issue. She is currently at work on Fields of Light: The 2012 Venus Transit of the Sun. Back to Top  
Brian Swimme: Mathematical Cosmology, (Gravitational Dynamics) University of Oregon, 1978  Evolutionary cosmology, science and spirituality, the role of humanity in the unfolding story of Earth. His research focuses on the evolutionary dynamics of the universe, the relationship between scientific cosmology and more traditional religious visions, the cultural implications of the new evolutionary epic, and the role of humanity in the unfolding story of Earth and cosmos. In 1998 he founded the international Epic of Evolution Society, a forum for artists, scientists, ecofeminists, ecologists, religious thinkers and educators interested in the new story. He is the author of The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos (Orbis, 1996), Manifesto for a Global Civilization (with Matthew Fox) (Bear and Company, 1983), The Universe is a Green Dragon (Bear and Company, 1984) and The Universe Story (Harper, 1992) which is a culmination of a ten-year collaboration with cultural historian Thomas Berry. Brian's media work includes the video series, Canticle to the Cosmos and The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos.  Back to Top  

Richard Trowbridge: Founder, Transletix, The Flourishing Earth, The Wisdom-Centered Life.  In 1996, after attaining an MA in Philosophy from Vermont College on the topic of worldviews, I began The Self-Liberation Center for Human Development. This organization, while not ultimately successful (copies of back editions of the newsletter The Possible Self are available upon request), did lead to The Flourishing Earth and Transletix--Training Athletes of Human Potential. In 2006 I complete a doctoral program at Union Institute and University, studying the concept of flourishing in a more focused way. This led to a focus on wisdom. Currently I teach critical thinking, human relations, and moral philosophy to undergraduates, and wisdom and thinking skills to people over fifty. Work in progress: a translation of Charles de Bovelles, Liber de Sapiente, The Book of the Sage (completion date: November 2008). Back to Top

http://wisdomcenteredlife.org

Art Whatley serves as the Program Chair for a Master of Arts program in Global Leadership and Sustainable Development at Hawaii Pacific University where he has been on the faculty for thirteen years.  Prior to moving to Hawaii, he was on the faculty in the College of Business Administration at New Mexico State University for twenty-six years.  He has also held a visiting professor positions at the University of Hawaii/Manoa over a twenty-year period.  He has also held positions at the East-West Center in Honolulu, and the Helsinki School of Economics in Finland.  He has owned and operated a small nursery business and commercial pecan operation in New Mexico. He has been a professional consultant, trainer, and educator for over 35 years.  As a consultant his clients have included school districts, city and county governments, private corporations, non-profit organizations, multinational corporations, and universities in the U.S., Mexico, Pakistan, and Finland.  He specializes in critical theory as applied to organizations, large systems change, sustainable development, globalization trends, and models for helping clients to develop sustainability strategies for their organizations. He has published three textbooks and over fifty academic and practitioner journals world-wide.  He recently completed a Fulbright Senior Fellow program with the University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia. Back to Top